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By Damali Mukhaye<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Academic staff in all public universities have laid down their tools over their\u00a0<\/span>salary enhancement that has not yet been met by the government since 2015.<\/p>\n This comes two days after some Universities including Makerere University and Kyambogo have just kick-started online teaching for their finalist and continuing students.<\/span><\/p>\n The chairperson of the Forum for Academic Staff Association in Public Universities (FAPSU), Deus Kamunyu says that the strike which kick-started on 6th<\/sup> February is underway until government clears Shs129billion in salary enhancement for all academic staff.<\/p>\n He says that to date, they have not received any commitment from the government and they are not going to teach either online or physically.<\/p>\n The leadership of academic staff associations has signed the strike notifications to the ministry of education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Damali Mukhaye Academic staff in all public universities have laid down their tools over their\u00a0salary enhancement that has not yet been met by the government since 2015. 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